Memoirs Books

The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq reports back from the front lines of the global war on terror to provide a comprehensive and chilling exploration of America's historic military and foreign-policy blunder.With unflinching candor,...

"The riveting opening sets the stage as the family raced to a rickety boat to escape their homeland, dodging communist gunfire as they ran . . . Su offers a compelling narrative of immigrant life, cultural dissonance and the tug of familial obligation."...

Soon to be featured in the Ken Burns documentary The U.S. and the Holocaust, premiering on PBS September 18thA New York Times Notable Book - Winner of the National Jewish Book Award - Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award - A Los Angeles Times...

An attractive, highly successful Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, Terri Cheney had been battling debilitating bipolar disorder for the better part of her life--and concealing a pharmacy's worth of prescription drugs meant to stabilize her moods and...

Before undergoing weight loss surgery, Susan Maria Leach couldn't tie a bathrobe around herself or ride with her husband on the back of his Harley. Providing practical and inspirational advice, she describes how gastric bypass surgery has transformed her...

"This beautiful book is rich with wit and humanness and honesty and loving detail....I cannot overstate how liberating and transforming I have found Leaving Church to be." --Frederick Buechner, author of Beyond Words"This is an astonishing book. . . ...

Legendary football coach and motivational speaker Lou Holtz writes his inspirational autobiography, from his years in the military to making Notre Dame a national champion and turning South Carolina into a winning program.Few people in the history of...

“Poignant . . . deeply personal . . . an indelible history of the largely forgotten Jews of Egypt . . . ”--Miami Herald In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel...

A mesmerizing memoir by Joy Davidman's son that retells the tender love story of his mother and C. S. Lewis.

Standing at the podium, Victor Villaseñor looked at the group of educators amassed before him, and his mind flooded with childhood memories of humiliation and abuse at the hands of his teachers. He became enraged. With a pounding heart, he began to speak...

Country Girl is a telling of my journey through my childhood years in an isolated northern farming community in Manitoba, Canada, all the way through to my quiet and peaceful senior years. Life was so simple and innocent as a small child, sheltered from...

An Angel Watches Over Me is based on a sad, true story of a mother who finds the courage with the love of her daughter to move forward in life after the tragic death of her newborn baby changes her outlook on life forever.

In March of 2008, a tumour the size of a grapefruit was found resting on twenty-five-year-old actor and comedian Daniel Stolfi's heart. The diagnosis: stage III acute non-Hodgkin's T-lymphoblastic lymphoma, an aggressive form of cancer that would require...

This short novel shares all the personal highs and lows of one B.C. teacher and her husband upon entering into retirement. It is a humorous look at elderly parent care, selling the family home, dealing with disgruntled siblings and estates, and suddenly...

The Garden of Eden, now referred to as the Kingdom of God here on earth, is looking less and less like a Paradise. Yet how many, whether Catholic or Protestant, are aware that the current-day warfare to destroy this Paradise has reached the height of a...

It can't be true. He can't be dead...I didn't even get to tell him I loved him. Forty-nine years ago, Brad was born. He will never celebrate his 50th birthday. When someone you love dies by suicide you are left with so many thoughts and...

Combing the curiosity of The Botany of Desire and the playful spirit of Wicked Plants, a witty and engaging history of botany and gardening memoir from the author of Paradise Under Glass--an easy-to-follow, anecdotal tutorial on the fascinating science...

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answerA bird sings because it has a song"-Joan Walsh AnglundApropos of Joan's brilliant metaphor, this book is not a prescription for health, an instruction for meditation, or a spiritual teaching. It is actually...

Dr. Greta Archbold was travelling on a cruise ship when it was caught in the global COVID-19 pandemic. The forrty-eight-day trip was shortened to just a few destinations before the pandemic struck. This is a personal miracle experience spanning seven...

This book is written as a personal memoir of an extraordinary life, in which the author deals with serious life challenges, including being shot, the death of his youngest son and cancer. Practising medicine in Africa as a UK trained physician proves to...

A story about an Aboriginal park ranger who uses the skills he has learned from watching the animals his grandfather uses as teaching guides to live a better life. The behaviour of animals and survival skills enhance his abilities in his career as a park...

Follow LeCren in an often humorous romp across Canada as he relates true stories of keeping the flying public safe during a career that spanned more than 33 years. From near-death experiences to practical jokes, LeCren lived and worked through an age...

ANSTEY - A Newfoundland StoryAn unforgettable story about an orphan boy and his family living in a small sleepy town in Newfoundland from the turn of the last century to present day. Life was not always easy in these outports. Whether it was the damp,...

When Julie's running nemesis asked, 'Do you want to do the Great Wall of China Marathon with me?' she laughed. How could she translate the 3-kilometre-run segment of a triathlon into the 42.195 kilometres required for a marathon? After consideration of...

A daughter of a hard rock miner. Married at the age of sixteen. At nineteen, Cathy Mulroy was hired at mining giant Inco and became one of the first women to work there since the war years in a non-traditional job.  In 1930, legislation stated it...

The Person Next To Me is the true life story of a self made Canadian real estate developer. The book takes you on a journey from his youth to his current age of fifty years old and depicts all of :the good, the bad and the ugly" that he has had to...

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural...

Beyond the House of the Lama, now in paperback, traces Crane's adventures as a writer, wanderer, and anarchic but still failing student of Zen. It begins in 1996 at the edge of the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, where he and his teacher and friend, Zen...

Part social commentary and very much a memoir, Half-Caste: Decidedly Brown in a Black or White World, describes and examines the contemporary pressures that many people from multiracial and mixed ethnicities face in developing their racialized social...